# Oldest nursling you've ever seen NIP

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 14, 2010, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-nursling-youve-ever-seen-nip/553751 "2010-09-14T18:40:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2010, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-nursling-youve-ever-seen-nip/553751/41 "2010-12-17T15:29:39Z")

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> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#):
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> She had to have a bit of breast milk before she would consent to being put into her car seat.

Or you could look at this as a very young child desperate to reconnect with her mother after a long separation. This is one reason many people prefer the term “nursing,” because “breastfeeding” implies it’s all about nutrition, and it’s not.

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> Any kid advanced enough to have that kind of dexterity should be weaned IMO.

Why?

I think we would all do well to remember there’s a difference between “I wouldn’t feel comfortable nursing a kid that old,” and “No one should nurse a kid that old.” One is perfectly valid, the other has no more grounding than objections to women wearing pants or gay marriage, or any other practice that “just isn’t (or wasn’t) done” and makes people feel uncomfortable.

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